Afghan police say at least three rockets have been fired into Kabul but so far no casualties have been reported.

Gen. Mohammad Zahir of the criminal investigation division of the Kabul police says the rockets landed in the Afghan capital Tuesday morning near a private television station and close to an office area used by the Afghan intelligence service.

He says police are investigating a report that shrapnel struck a civilian vehicle.

But Zahir says that the car didn’t stop and so police don’t know if anyone was injured.

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Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Monday the Obama administration is nearing a decision in the next few weeks on how many U.S. troops would remain in Afghanistan — and for what purposes — after the U.S.-led combat mission ends in 2014.

Panetta told reporters aboard his plane en route from Hawaii to Australia that Gen. John Allen, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, has developed several options on a post-2014 presence.

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• AUKLAND, New Zealand — Police say they caught a New Zealand man before he had a chance to throw a bucket of horse manure over Prince Charles and his wife Camilla during a royal visit to the Pacific nation Castislav “Sam” Bacanov, 76, pleaded not guilty in an Auckland court Tuesday. He has agreed under his bail conditions to keep at least 500 meters from the royal couple.

• BEIJING — China accused the Dalai Lama of allying with Japanese right-wingers in an island dispute as a way of attacking China and blamed him for glorifying a wave of self-immolations among Tibetans.

• TEL HAZEKA, Golan Heights — Israeli tanks struck a Syrian artillery launcher Monday after a stray mortar shell flew into Israel-held territory, the first direct clash between the neighbors since the Syrian uprising began nearly two years ago. The confrontation fueled new fears that the Syrian civil war could drag Israel into the violence, a scenario with grave consequences for the region.